# Not understanding eval traceback (Seconded)

slayer@kaiwan.com (slayer@kaiwan.com)
Sat, 11 May 1996 08:52:27 PDT

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    At 08:40 AM 5/11/96 PDT, Saint Erroneous wrote:
    >On Sat, 11 May 1996, Geoffrey King wrote:
    >
    >> In case your dubious, here is the entire train of events:
    >> Entered the following:
    >>   @verb me:r6 this none this
    >>   @edit me:r6
    >>   "return 6;
    >>   compile
    >>   quit
    >>   eval caller:r6()
    >>
    >> Got back:
    >>   wizard>> eval caller:r6()
    >>   #-1:Input to EVAL, line 1:  Verb not found
    >>   ... called from built-in function eval()
    >>   ... called from #57:eval_cmd_string (this == #2), line 18
    >>   ... called from #57:eval*-d (this == #2), line 10
    >>   (End of traceback)
    >
    >You forgot to set the verb to be +x, so eval won't be able to find it.
    >
    >@chmod me:r6 +x
    >
    >should do the trick.
    >
    >-michael
    >
    hm I thought when you made a verb 'this none this' and didn't specify the
    permissions it made it 'rxd' by default?

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